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If the protesters were indeed an out of control mob and known to be armed with significant quantities of real guns, then what on earth were police forces doing in firing rubber bullets into their midst? Obviously the armed crowd would think they were being fired upon with real bullets and would respond in kind. If this is indeed what happened, and there was enough gunfire to kill and injure over a hundred protesters, how many police did the protesters kill and injure? Why are those numbers not part of this story?

Leaving them out gives the strong impression that there were NO police deaths or serious injuries and that the authorities’ response was grossly disproportionate at best and outright mass murder at the worst.

Still no comments showing on that Aussie site. I’m not greatly surprised. I’ve experienced FAR more censorship on my Free Choice postings on Australian sites than those in any other country. No idea why.

Just have a little look at the African ‘advantage’. Despite the incredibly low cost of most labor,unemployment rates in many African mineral exporters are astronomically high,and governance is ‘scratchy’ at best.

Rinehart wants to leverage regulation and taxation concessions in Australia by appealing to examples of lower cost enterprises in semi-failed states. Charming.